Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-06-16

Iowa orator, is to be the talker at the
Wspello celebration on the Fourth.
Hon. John w. Akers, Superintendent
of Public Instruction, will be Fort
Dodge's Fourth of July orator.
Guthrie Center is enjoying fine
growth this season. Five brick business
houses. THE Hotel National" and other
important Improvements are being rapidly
pushed to completion.
The Davenport Democrat Gazette says:
A report quite well authenticated is cir
culated that arrangements are about COM
pleted whereby the International Dis.
tillery at Des Moines, the Iowa City
Distillery, and the Distillery at Atlantic,
Iowa, are to be removed to Omaha,
Nebraska, or st. Joseph, Missouri. The
entire expense of the transportation is to
be sustained by the Chicago, Rock Island
& Pacific railroad
The State Board of Health has received
Its marriage birth and death record for
lSS5-filling nineteen large volumes
Each of these are duplicates of the records
kept in each county vault so that in case
fire destroys the county record, it can be
supplied by reference to those in pos
session of the State Board.
Articles of incorporation have been
filed with the Secretary of State by the
Farmers Trust Company of Sioux City,
with capital stock of one million dol
lars. The incorporates are Messrs. G.
B. Shaw, c. II. Fargo, r. Sayer, j. l..
Lombard and Z. l.. Lobdell. Articles
were also filed by the Dubuque Boot and
Shoe Manufacturing company. of Du-
buque, with a capital stock of $25, coo, in
corporated by A. w. Sears, Louis Rein
icke. Ii. G. Bechtel and w. E. Fuller.
A telegram received at Davenport June
-, from Santa Fe, N. NJ, announces the
death of Hon. James Thorington. He
left Davenport three weeks ago for the
benefit of his health Mr.. Thorington
was born in Alabama in 1913. In 1899
he went to Davenport, being one of the
earliest settlers of that region. He was
mayor of the city four consecutive terms,
from 1912 to 1916. In 1866 he was elect
ed to Congress, Iowa at that time having
but two representatives Later he was
sheriff and clerk of Scott county for
several terms each. In June, 1857, he
was appointed by President Grant Consul
at Aspinwall, and held the position eleven
years He was prominently connected
with the orders of Masonry and Odd
Fellowship.
A runaway team at Davenport dashed
into a group of little girls, severely in
juring two Of them, and had it not been
for the presence Of mind Of an officer
several would have been killed.
The cut-worm, which is playing havoc
with the corn crop in southeastern Iowa
is not the old style worm, 1t is long,
slim web-spinning worm a sort Of dude
among its kind, that is to blame for all
the trouble.
A Burlington young man, DESTROYS of
fame, cut his name on bench in pub
lie park. 1t resulted in having his name
enrolled in good, durable ink on the court
docket, and just opposite was set down
1855, which the young man paid
Four Davenport young men spent a
night at the Donahoc house. said to be
inhabited by spooks The nearest ap
proach to a ghost they could find was an
able bodied skunk with wonderful elo,
quence in every movement.
AVillisca special, June9, says: Thomas
O'Brien, a man employed in Hines con
struction gang now at work on the iron
bridge west of town, was drowned at
o'clock p. m. yesterday. He was at work
getting drift.wood away from the bridge,
when he jumped into the water and i'm
mediately went under, only coming to
the surface once afterward, and then
making no effort to save himself, al
though he was good swimmer. The
supposition of his fellow workmen, and
also of Mr.. Hines, the boss. is that it was
case of suicide. He has been in bad
luck for the past four or FIVE years. He
had been switching for the 90" for a
number of years, until last winter, when
he became deaf while working at Red
Oak. He had only been at work here
about three weeks, and had lately told
some of the workmcn that he would kill
himself. He was about twenty-five or
thirty years of age, and, as far as known,
had no relatives. O'Brien's body was
found this morning near the bridge.
The First Presbyterian church of Cedar
Rapids celebrated its fortieth anniversary
by four days session.
Col. w. p Hepburn has been placed on
the programme to give the Grafton at
Marion on the Fourth of July.
Every candidate for county offices in
Dallas county, except one, was present in
Dallas Center on Decoration Day.
A very sad accident occurred about six
miles from Pella at about o'clock on
the afternoonof June o. While a num-
Der of farmer boys were out fishing and
swimming in the Des Moines river about
one mile below the Wabash railroad
bridge, Dick and Morie Meadow, aged
IA and II years respectively. and Bud
Thomas, aged IA years, suddenly got into
fifteen feet of water, and as they could
not swim, all three were drowned. The
bodies of the two Meadow boys were re-
covered by six O'Clock, but the other
body has not yet been found. The father
of the last named boy was killed in run.
away accident but few years ago.
A Cedar Rapids woman arranged a
marriage between her thirteen. year old
daughter and man old enough to be the
girls grandfather, on condition that the
man would support the family. The
bridegroom kept his promise for week,
and then left for parts unknown.
The Burlington prophet sends a chill
through the spinal column of the country
by announcing: "Therc is bare posi-
bility Of frost about September 4, but
not probable. and destructive frosts are